[HTML][HTML] Molecular characteristics, immune evasion, and impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants

C Sun, C Xie, GL Bu, LY Zhong, MS Zeng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The persistent COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has brought an enormous public health
burden to the global society and is accompanied by various evolution of the virus genome …

[HTML][HTML] Duration of effectiveness of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease: results of a systematic review and meta-regression

DR Feikin, MM Higdon, LJ Abu-Raddad, N Andrews… - The lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Knowing whether COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness wanes is crucial for
informing vaccine policy, such as the need for and timing of booster doses. We aimed to …

Estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron or Delta symptomatic infection and severe outcomes

SA Buchan, H Chung, KA Brown, PC Austin… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including among individuals who have
received 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, increased substantially following the emergence of …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting vaccine effectiveness against severe COVID-19 over time and against variants: a meta-analysis

D Cromer, M Steain, A Reynaldi, TE Schlub… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Vaccine protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection has been shown to be strongly
correlated with neutralising antibody titres; however, this has not yet been demonstrated for …

Protection against omicron (B. 1.1. 529) BA. 2 reinfection conferred by primary omicron BA. 1 or pre-omicron SARS-CoV-2 infection among health-care workers with …

S Carazo, DM Skowronski, M Brisson… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background There is a paucity of data on vaccine-induced or infection-induced (hybrid or
natural) immunity against omicron (B. 1.1. 529) subvariant BA. 2, particularly in comparing …

[HTML][HTML] Delayed-interval BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination enhances humoral immunity and induces robust T cell responses

VG Hall, VH Ferreira, H Wood, M Ierullo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Delayed dosing intervals are a strategy to immunize a greater proportion of the population.
In an observational study, we compared humoral and cellular responses in health care …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of anti-SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-neutralizing antibody titers in different vaccinated and unvaccinated convalescent plasma sources

DJ Sullivan, M Franchini, MJ Joyner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The latest SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Omicron, with its immune escape from
therapeutic anti-Spike monoclonal antibodies and WA-1 vaccine-elicited sera, demonstrates …

SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron variant: Immune escape and vaccine development

D Ao, T Lan, X He, J Liu, L Chen, DT Baptista‐Hon… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
New genetic variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
constantly emerge through unmitigated spread of the virus in the ongoing Coronavirus …

Short term, relative effectiveness of four doses versus three doses of BNT162b2 vaccine in people aged 60 years and older in Israel: retrospective, test negative, case …

S Gazit, Y Saciuk, G Perez, A Peretz, VE Pitzer… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the relative effectiveness of a fourth dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech
mRNA (BNT162b2) vaccine compared with three vaccine doses over the span of 10 weeks …

A systematic review of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and disease

MM Higdon, B Wahl, CB Jones… - Open Forum …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Billions of doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have been administered
globally, dramatically reducing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …